Question about steaks

[lord of the mark]

if he doesnt want to eat blood, tell him to buy kosher steaks. They are salted and soaked (kashered) to remove any excess blood. Alternatively non-kashered meat (that is in all other respects kosher) can be eaten after broiling, which is considered to remove blood.

OTOH it cant be that easy to find kosher meat in India, can it?

kashering meat

http://www.yerushalayim.net/torah/dafyomi/5764/052104.htm

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Well done steaks. A waste of good meat.

Indeed for maximum taste and juiciness red meat should be served on the rare side.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
OTOH it cant be that easy to find kosher meat in India, can it?

Actually I think kosher meat might be the same as halal meat, which is what Muslims eat, but I might be wrong. I know my Muslim friends ask for kosher when they're in the US.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
OTOH it cant be that easy to find kosher meat in India, can it?

Sorry...that one just got me!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Actually I think kosher meat might be the same as halal meat, which is what Muslims eat, but I might be wrong. I know my Muslim friends ask for kosher when they're in the US.

kashrut is stricter than Halal, IIUC. Observant muslims can eat kosher meat, but Orthodox Jews cant eat Halal meat (since my own kashrut observance is not at all strict, I do eat Halal eat when I can in preference to regular meat - and also for the sake of Shalom) In particular I dont know if the muslims remove the blood.

[LordShiva]

I know that for meat to qualify as halal, the animal needs to bleed to death, so maybe they require the removal of the blood too.

[Dinner]

Don't they break most of the bones with a hammer first? So that the animal is put through tremendous pain before they finally slit its throat?

[lord of the mark]

There seems to be an effort to create a Chabad (an Orthodox Jewish sect that reaches out to unaffiliated Jews and provides a range of services in many "odd" places) House in Bangalore:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1191595.cms

Theres definitely one in Mumbai. Your friend could contact them about kosher meat. Theres still a Jewish community in India, I dont know much about their food though (other than when my friends and I had Indian for a our Shabbas meal, we justified that it was "traditional" by citing the Indian Jews. Recently we heard some music from a singer I refer to jokingly to my family as "The Calcutta Lady" but shes actually from the Iraqi Jewish community of Calcutta, and theyve all left India, IIUC.

[LordShiva]

Actually, my friend was just using it as an excuse to explain why he eats his steaks well-done

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Actually, my friend was just using it as an excuse to explain why he eats his steaks well-done

actually my mom, who didnt keep kosher, always cooked steak well done, and I suspect it was from a cultural aversion to blood in the meat, and the fact that non-kashered meat was broiled to well done. It took me a while, and convincing by Texans and so fourth, to stop eating meat well done.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I know that for meat to qualify as halal, the animal needs to bleed to death, so maybe they require the removal of the blood too.

IIUC, they consider that their slaughtering method removes all the blood, so they dont bother with the salting and soaking bit. Also not ALL muslim authorities consider kosher meat ok, since there seem to be some areas where we are more lax.

[Datajack Franit]

[SIZE=1]Well, blood, and other extracellular and formerly intracellular fluids

You just killed my appetite for the next 10 years

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by LordShiva
But then why isn't it salty?

Blood isn't salty.

[LordShiva]

Mine is.

[snoopy369]

I'm not sure if blood is salty... but if your experience with blood consists of licking it off of wounds, you're getting exuded salts from your skin (ie, sweat and such).